The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-08-19

turneu 10 the Lrlendiy AID aid feebly said.
@Take out my wife first, Pm afraid the chna
is dead" So they carried out them otbsr
and as a broken seat was taken IN
her crushed breast the blood which
welsed from her lips told how badly
she was hurt They carried the chile
talr-haired, hlue-eyed girl Of t~hree-and laid
her in the corn field dead, along side of her
dying mother. Then they went back for tba
father and brought him u Both his legs
were broken. but he crawled through tha
corn to the side Of his wife aud, feeling her
loved featurestn the darkness, pressed some
brandy 10 her lips and asked her how she
felt feeble groad was
H oNLY ANSWER
and the next instant she died. The man fah
the forms of his dead wife and child and
cried out, "My Godl there is nothing more
for mt to live for now" and taking a pistol
out Of his pocket, pulled the trigger The
bullet went surely through his brain, and the
three dead bodies of that little family are
now lying side by side in Chatswoxth waiting
to be identified About 8 O'Clock the re-
porter was driven out to the
wreck The driveway led along the
left Of the railroad and To
the south os the road was
an old-fashioned Usage orange hedge. The
road was very muddy and full of chuck holes
A stream of humanity was pouring in from
the wreck. Some had checks in their hats
and carried valises They were evidently
passengers on the Inflated train. Country
boys and girls came along swinging hands
and talking in low tones about the terrible
disaster. A photographer dragged his
weary limbs along the track. He
was carrying a camera and a lot
OF negatives. The roadbed was almost
level, just a little grade running up TO the
wreck at c raise OF ten or fifteen feet to the
mile. About two or three miles from the
town on a little raise was the debris of the
wreck. The sleeping car STunis" was at the
end of the train. 1t was lacked in the air.
supported by the ~trestles. The front end of
the car was directly over the place where
the bridge stood To the right lay a coach
all
BROKE INTO KINDLING WOOD,
and directly on the road was piled up what
was left Of six OK seven coaches, Turned
bottom side up, and broken beyond recog-
milton. Across the track in front of the pile
OF debris was a coach lying crosswise, way
up at least ten feet in the air. Beyond were
the two tenders and one engine. One ten
der was to the left of the track n the
other to the right They were turned
bottom side up and rent assunder The engine
was scarcely recognizable. On the side
of the cab was the ill-starred number SIS"
Only q big PAM of glass marked "l3." On
the hedge were hats, shoes, and all manner
Of wearing apparel, broken lanterns and
seats from the cars Il was an awful sight
Hats of men and women, broken and scared
with blood, coats reeking with gore, and
ladies' underwear sneared with life-fiuid.
1t was plain to be seen from the looks Of the
baggage that the travellers were well-to-do
people. There was
AN
in the affair which was not only remarkable
in its way, but shows how terribly these six
coaches were jammed and mashed together
When the accident occurred Andy Mooney
of Peoria and Conductor Stillwell, who was
in charge or the train, were three cars from
each other. Mooney was in the second car
and Stillwell in the fifth The next instant
they found themselves literally in each
others arms. the car in which the conductor
was riding having been carried over the two
in front and dropped on top Of
the one which Mooney was in. The strange
part of IL was neither man was hurt III
most horrible death Of al was that of En-
gineer McClintock engineer Of the seconden-
CINE of the double header. The first engine
which Engineer Sutherland was driving
passed over the burning bridge in safety,
but it was under its weight that the half
consumed bridge gave way, and the tender
dropped back into the dry slough.
sutherland's engine kept the rails and
ran on In safety, such was the
awful speed Of the unfortunate train.
McClintock's engine plunged down into the
black hole, and as the tender mounted on
top of the cab it took McClintock In the.back
Of the neck and cut his head clean Of his
shoulders The trunk was found under the
engine. the head couldn't be discovered, and
the presumption is that it was ground to
atomsi in the horrible millstones Of the en-
CINE and the tender. There have been many
guesses as to the origin of the fire which
weakened the bridge and caused the acct
dent. but so far they are nothing but
gnesses. The
NEWS or THE p1sAsTER
was brought to Chatsworth by one Of the
passengers about midnight, and the inhabi-
tants aroused, buggies, lumber wagons, and
every kind Of vehicles were used to reach
the fatal slot IA fast as The corpses were
taken from the wreck they were laid out on
the side of the track Before daylight
the work Of recovering the dead and xemov-
ing them to Chatsworth was begun.
AS soon as the corpses were received
they we've placed in a large, empty building.
lately occupied as a store, also In the public
school Eouse and in the depot waiting room
The residents Of the town threw open their
houses for the r~ecention Of the dead and
wounded, but the former were all taken to
the improvised morgues Friends end
relatives OF the dead came to Chats
worth with the remains and the scenes
ia the different places where the bodies lay